A child was among those injured in a triple shooing in west Baltimore, city police said.

Police were called at about 8:45 p.m. Thursday to two locations in an area around the 3100 block of West North Avenue.

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Police said a 25-year-old man and 20-year-old man were shot, and a 10-year-old boy was grazed by a bullet. The victims' injuries are non-life-threatening.

"This is the first week of school for Baltimore City school kids, and this kid was probably out doing what we try to encourage our kids to do, and that's go outside and play outside. And he's probably about to go in the house and get himself ready for school the next day, and he gets shot by a bullet from a bad guy, who wasn't targeting him, but it underscores the fact that bullets have no names," Baltimore City Police Director T.J. Smith said.

The victims were found in different locations. The boy was found on North Rosedale Street, and the man about a half a mile away on Windsor Avenue.

The victims were all transported to hospitals, where they are expected to survive their injuries.

"It appears to have been a graze wound, so he's fortunate. But that's a traumatic experience for a child to have now, experienced being shot, and that's not good for us and we don't like that, and we want to find these bad guys who did this to him," Smith said.

People in the neighborhood said it's just more of the same that needs to stop.

"We need to stop the violence as humans. Stop this killing one another. It don't make no sense," resident Terry Floyd said.

"What's most important is unfortunately a child was shot in our streets tonight, and we need the public's help to find the person that's responsible for this," Baltimore City police Sgt. Jarron Jackson said.

Sgt. Rebecca Duncan and her partner canvassed the southwestern area of North Avenue Friday afternoon.

"We're just handing out Metro Crime Stoppers fliers for the violent crime in this neighborhood and just asking anybody if they see something, say something. Get paid for your information while you're doing it," Duncan said.

The faith community joined with police officers and city officials Friday night for a prayer vigil at the scene.

"We still have too much violence in our community," Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said. "Pray that this is the last child we have in our city this year impacted by violence, and pray that God covers our city in a spirit of peace."

Rep. Elijah Cummings pleaded with criminals to put down their guns. He also said police need the public's help solving crimes.

"Either somebody saw it, heard about it, told about it. Somebody knows what's going on in these events, and so we got to resolve it," Cummings said.

Baltimore police Interim Commissioner Kevin Davis said fear of retaliation often scares people from coming forward.

"As much as we can say it, I'm telling this city that we will do whatever we need to do to afford the people who can help us solve violent crimes the protection they need to do so," Davis said.

Anyone with information is asked to call detectives at 410-396-2488 or Metro Crime Stoppers at 866-7LOCKUP.